Live from Sage Gateshead, Martin Handley presents a special Free Thinking edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Live at Sage Gateshead, Jonathan Swain presents an edition for Free Thinking Festival 2017. With Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, plus Ligeti, Chausson, Handel and Haydn. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is historian Juliet Nicolson. Her musical choices include Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Dory Previn, Gershwin and Joe Dassin. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a performance by the Kungsbacka Trio. Schumann: Piano Trio No 2 in F, Op 80. Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor. Show more
A concert given by the Avison Ensemble and violinist Bojan Cicic, featuring The Vivaldi's Four Seasons along with the sonnets from which the composer took his musical inspiration. Show more
From the Chapel of Winchester College. Show more
Live from Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a special edition, with guest choir Voices of Hope performing songs from their debut album. Show more
In a programme recorded at the Free Thinking Festival 2017 at Sage Gateshead, Tom Service explores how music warps and changes our sense of how time is flowing. Show more
Actors Kim Gerard and Samuel West are joined by an ensemble from Royal Northern Sinfonia with music and readings exploring the theme of Free Thinking 2017: the speed of life. Show more
Writer Ken Hollings reassesses the life and work of 1960s public intellectual and mass media guru Marshall McLuhan, examining his relevance in today's digital world. Show more
Ian Skelly presents recent concerts. Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 1; Symphony No 7. Plus Netherlands Radio Philharmonic playing Mussorgsky. Show more
Adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film. After Fanny and Alexander's father dies, their mother Emilie marries the bishop and they all move to live together at the palace. Show more
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a concert of Renaissance polyphony given by vocal group Cut Circle recorded at the 2016 Regensburg Early Music Festival in Germany. Show more
Ian Skelly presents works played at Music on the Brink of Destruction, a concert at Wigmore Hall in London featuring music written and performed in the Terezin and Warsaw ghettos. Show more
John Shea presents a concert from Sao Paulo, featuring Villa-Lobos's Guitar Concerto and the Cantata Criolla by Antonio Estevez. Show more